Detection rules › Sigma

Disable Important Scheduled Task

Severity
high
Author
frack113, Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems), X__Junior
Source
upstream

Detects when adversaries stop services or processes by disabling their respective scheduled tasks in order to conduct data destructive activities

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

TacticTechniques
ImpactT1489 Service Stop

Event coverage

ProviderEvent IDTitle
Sysmon1Process creation
Security-Auditing4688A new process has been created.

Stages and Predicates

Stage 1: selection

or:
CommandLine|contains: '\Windows\BitLocker'
CommandLine|contains: '\Windows\ExploitGuard'
CommandLine|contains: '\Windows\ExploitGuard\ExploitGuard MDM policy Refresh'
CommandLine|contains: '\Windows\SystemRestore\SR'
CommandLine|contains: '\Windows\UpdateOrchestrator\'
CommandLine|contains: '\Windows\Windows Defender\'
CommandLine|contains: '\Windows\WindowsBackup\'
CommandLine|contains: '\Windows\WindowsUpdate\'
CommandLine|contains: '/Change'
CommandLine|contains: '/TN'
CommandLine|contains: '/disable'
Image|endswith: '\schtasks.exe'

Indicators

Each row is a field, operator, and value that the rule matches. The corpus column counts how many other rules in the catalog look for the same combination: high numbers point to widely-used, community-vetted indicators. Blank or 1 shows that the indicator is specific to this rule.

FieldKindValues
CommandLinematch
  • /Change
  • /TN
  • /disable corpus 2 (sigma 2)
  • \Windows\BitLocker corpus 2 (sigma 2)
  • \Windows\ExploitGuard corpus 2 (sigma 2)
  • \Windows\ExploitGuard\ExploitGuard MDM policy Refresh
  • \Windows\SystemRestore\SR corpus 2 (sigma 2)
  • \Windows\UpdateOrchestrator\ corpus 2 (sigma 2)
  • \Windows\Windows Defender\ corpus 2 (sigma 2)
  • \Windows\WindowsBackup\ corpus 2 (sigma 2)
  • \Windows\WindowsUpdate\ corpus 2 (sigma 2)
Imageends_with
  • \schtasks.exe corpus 45 (sigma 45)